2020Andrea Chiarvesio, Eric M. Lang
- Videos
- 207
- Creators
- 70
1 - 4 players40 minLight weight

2025Andrea Chiarvesio
Mainly reviews. Nova Era is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 10 reviews, 3 how-to-play guides, 3 recorded sessions, and 2 unboxings.
From BoardGameGeek
In Nova Era, players guide their civilization from humble tribal beginnings to vast scientific empires, navigating the twists and turns through eras of history. Harness the power of technology, expand territories, and enlist famous (and sometimes infamous) personalities from across history. Civilizations face constant threats from rival nations, natural disasters, social unrest, and the ever-looming possibility of a dark age. The objective of Nova Era is to build the greatest civilization. This is done by strategically choosing the most beneficial technologies, territories, and personalities from the tableau, evolving them as the players go through the annals of time. Players score by having a variety and/or majority of different technology types, as well as fulfilling various card objectives. Gameplay revolves around drafting and spending dice, with different dice types providing different resources, bonuses, and penalties for players. Overextending your own dice leads to civil unrest, and dice unused by players fill up the progress bars of natural disasters and the Dark Age, affecting all players across the table. Once all dice actions are taken, an era ends and a new one begins. At the end of three eras, the game ends and the most prosperous civilization wins! -description from the publisher
Nova Era has 18 videos from 15 creators: 10 reviews, 3 how-to-play guides, 3 playthroughs and 2 unboxings. They date from 2024 to December 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "Nova Era - How To Play" by Watch It Played, which runs 33 min. For a quicker teach, "How to play Nova Era" by JestaThaRogue runs 12 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "The Discriminating Gamer: Nova Era" by The Discriminating Gamer. 9 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Nova Era: 2 Player Play Through" by The Meeple Monkey, one of 3 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Marvel United, Marvel United: X-Men, Marvel United: Multiverse and Kingsburg, also by Andrea Chiarvesio.
8 of 15
2020Andrea Chiarvesio, Eric M. Lang
1 - 4 players40 minLight weight
2021Andrea Chiarvesio, Eric M. Lang, Francesco Rugerfred Sedda
1 - 5 players40 minMedium weight
2024Andrea Chiarvesio, Eric M. Lang
1 - 5 players20 - 40 minLight weight
2007Andrea Chiarvesio, Luca Iennaco
2 - 5 players90 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
In Nova Era, players guide their civilization from humble tribal beginnings to vast scientific empires, navigating the twists and turns through eras of history. Harness the power of technology, expand territories, and enlist famous (and sometimes infamous) personalities from across history. Civilizations face constant threats from rival nations, natural disasters, social unrest, and the ever-looming possibility of a dark age. The objective of Nova Era is to build the greatest civilization. This is done by strategically choosing the most beneficial technologies, territories, and personalities from the tableau, evolving them as the players go through the annals of time. Players score by having a variety and/or majority of different technology types, as well as fulfilling various card objectives. Gameplay revolves around drafting and spending dice, with different dice types providing different resources, bonuses, and penalties for players. Overextending your own dice leads to civil unrest, and dice unused by players fill up the progress bars of natural disasters and the Dark Age, affecting all players across the table. Once all dice actions are taken, an era ends and a new one begins. At the end of three eras, the game ends and the most prosperous civilization wins! -description from the publisher
Designer
Andrea Chiarvesio
Artist
Agnès Ripoche
Publisher
CMON Global Limited
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